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ContentsIntroduction1. Main Elements of the CIA Detention Program1.1 Arrest and Transfer1.2 Continuous Solitary Confinement and Incommunicado Detention1.3 Other Methods of Ill-treatment1.3.1 Suffocation by water1.3.2 Prolonged Stress Standing1.3.3 Beatings by use of a collar1.3.4 Beating and kicking1.3.5 Confinement in a box1.3.6 Prolonged nudity1.3.7 Sleep deprivation and use of loud music1.3.8 Exposure to cold temperature/cold water1.3.9 Prolonged use of handcuffs and shackles1.3.10 Threats1.3.11 Forced shaving1.3.12 Deprivation/restricted provision of solid food1.4 Further elements of the detention regime...

The Gestapo's list of torture techniques that fit into their "enhanced interrogation program" - a torture regime designed to avoid too-obvious or incriminating physical scars:

4 comments:

I'm not sure where I stand on this. Torturing someone is unacceptable and ineffective. Is it any better if you torture someone more softly? If it is, then are you condoning some forms of torture? If it isn't then it doesn't matter how bad the physical measures are, surely?

This is the issue with Bush/Cheney - they have muddied the waters for many with torture. My point (and Andy Sullivan's) is not just that 'it doesn't work', and other arguments, but to revisit history and recall how Churchill and our forefathers thought.

'he who forgets history' and all that ...

Sullivan has been the best documenter on this http://tinyurl.com/cqy46p